Troy, Vermont, USA (North Troy) (Missisquoi)
1849 - Troy

Orleans Co. This town is well watered by Missisco River, which runs through it near the western border from south to north, and by several of its tributaries.

The falls on the Missisco, in the north part, are a considerable curiosity. Here the river precipitates itself down a ledge of rocks about seventy feet These falls, and the deep still water below, present a grand and interesting spectacle, when viewed from a rock which projects over them, 120 feet in perpendicular height.

The soil is in general a strong loam, suitable for grass and most kinds of grain. The surface is generally level, and along the river are tracts of intervale, of considerable extent and fertility. The principal rocks are chlorite and mica slate, serpentine, limestone, and steatite.

Some years ago, an immense mass of iron ore, of an excellent quality, was discovered in Troy, a short distance to the eastward of Missisco River. A furnace and forge have beep erected, which produce annually large quantities of iron. The quantity of ore is inexhaustible.

The Orleans Iron Company, in this town, was incorporated in 1847.

Boundaries. North by Patton, Canada, east by Newport, south by Lowell, and west by Westfield and Jay.

First Settlers. The settlement was commenced about the year 1800, by emigrants from different towns on Connecticut River. During the late war Avith Great Britain, most of the inhabitants left the town. A part of them, however, returned after the war, and the settlement has since advanced with considerable rapidity.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 923 bushels ; Indian corn, 1,880 bushels ; potatoes, 30,880 bushels; hay, 2,192 tons ; maple sugar, 19,0G6 pounds ; wool, 5,944 pounds.

Distances. Ten miles north from Irasburgh, and forty-seven miles north from Montpelier.

A gazetteer of Vermont... by John Hayward Boston - Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason 1849

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